Cytokinesis and the contractile ring in fission yeast

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 713-719

  Feierbach, Becket ^a   Chang, Fred ^a  

^a Department of Microbiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYTOKINESIS; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

CELL DIVISION; MYOSINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0035204385     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(01)00273-9     Document Type: Review

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20. Type II myosin regulatory light chain relieves auto-inhibition of myosin-heavy-chain function
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26. Fission yeast Rng3p an UCS-domain protein that mediates myosin II assembly during cytokinesis
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44. Calmodulin localizes to the spindle pole body of Schizosaccharomyces pombe and performs an essential function in chromosome segregation
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53. Fission yeast Pom1p kinase activity is cell-cycle-regulated and essential for cellular symmetry during growth and division
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